Building that housed pain and fear scheduled for destruction
A building where locals pick up their mail, look for work and seek government help is a place of pain and fear for those who remember it as a residential school. Some of the 175 or so residents in the Indigenous village of Lower Post near the B.C.-Yukon boundary avoid stepping inside, while others have described feelings of lingering tension at having to enter the building. The former Lower Post residential school operated from 1951 to 1975 and now serves as a post office, employment centre and band office for the Daylu Dena Council. After 45 years of lobbying the federal and B.C. governme...
Source: nationalobserver.com